How did the man who made Letters From Iwo Jima go on to make American Sniper?

[HHR]

Like, what in the actual fukk?

Has he become such a mouthpiece for the right that he ignores his own instincts? Or was Letters just a brilliant screenplay that he opted to stick to?

For those who haven't seen Letters, it's the story of the Iwo Jima campaign told from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers. It's an incredibly intimate, somber and deeply respectful look at war from the POV of our enemies. It has all the nuance and honesty that was sorely lacking from American Sniper.

IMO, it's Eastwood's finest work and one of the best anti-war movies ever made.

 

[The Jewnited States]

I tried to watch that movie once but it was pretty slow pace from what I remember. Maybe I'll.give it another shot

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

 

[TheGodling]

The same way Charlton Heston went from one of Hollywood's most outspoken liberals to one of the craziest right wing gun nuts the world has ever seen...

He got old. Grumpy old men who look at the state of the world, believe it was better in their days and start to support the party of old grumpy men who desperately cling to conservatism and the old ways and say what they think. So they become more conservative and follow that republican line of thought and that's how a movie like American Sniper ended up in his hands.

 

[Alexander The Great]

Like, what in the actual fukk?

Has he become such a mouthpiece for the right that he ignores his own instincts? Or was Letters just a brilliant screenplay that he opted to stick to?

For those who haven't seen Letters, it's the story of the Iwo Jima campaign told from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers. It's an incredibly intimate, somber and deeply respectful look at war from the POV of our enemies. It has all the nuance and honesty that was sorely lacking from American Sniper.

IMO, it's Eastwood's finest work and one of the best anti-war movies ever made.

I think I read Eastwood had said Sniper was supposed to be an anti war movie....but his right wing bias might have seeped in

 

[Roman Brady]

Like, what in the actual fukk?

Has he become such a mouthpiece for the right that he ignores his own instincts? Or was Letters just a brilliant screenplay that he opted to stick to?

For those who haven't seen Letters, it's the story of the Iwo Jima campaign told from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers. It's an incredibly intimate, somber and deeply respectful look at war from the POV of our enemies. It has all the nuance and honesty that was sorely lacking from American Sniper.

IMO, it's Eastwood's finest work and one of the best anti-war movies ever made.

if this was a solo movie your point would be food for thought but letters wasn't this earnest labour of love like you make out. It was part of a package remember, I am sure flag of our fathers was overly jingoistic and right wingish wasn't it?

 

[HHR]

if this was a solo movie your point would be food for thought but letters wasn't this earnest labour of love like you make out. It was part of a package remember, I am sure flag of our fathers was overly jingoistic and right wingish wasn't it?

Not at all.